The number of internet users in Japan totalled 56.45m at the end of February, up from 46.2m a year earlier, and the number is expected to reach 61.24m at the end of this year. (Survey by Impress).
Of all households in Japan, 73 per cent had at least one member using the Internet. Of households with internet access, 39.3 per cent used broadband access services. That is up from 18.5 per cent, reflecting the widespread availability of low-cost asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) access services. The number of individuals using broadband services totalled an estimated 15.96m
The number of Internet users in the world totalled 670.8m at the end of 2002. The Asia-Pacific region accounted for 32.1 per cent of the total, surpassing Europe as the world’s largest user by region for the first time. Europe had a 31.9 per cent share.